PE> You don't see ordinary people discussing shares anymore.

 RS> Yeah, it certainly hasnt spilled over to the general man in 
 RS> the street type stuff you see at the peak of a stock market 
 RS> boom.

 RS> The closest you get at the moment is the very high levels 
 RS> of interest in the floats like the ComBank share issue.

Yeah, that's totally incredible actually.  I was most surpised to see
people so happy to buy CB shares.  1000s of shares to choose from, and just
because the government decides to get rid of one of their assets, it's more
interesting than the other 1000s.  I wouldn't go near any government-run
enterprise myself.  BFN.

Paul

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